part 2 of the roots in blues series from tallman 785 with 2 tracks and 6 locked grooves.

irresistible, dry, perfectly crafted dj tool techno/house cuts + two dj friendly locked grooves for >down<, decks.de tipp

fantastic 3rd release on diciccos new label! hand stamped sleeve! expect great support. john osborn and tallmen.785 debut on run out run with two spaced out house excursions backed by a remix from label boss tom dicicco.>meldrum< also features additional production talent from bill youngman.

after the vocal treatments and acid lines of tallmen 001, moog feedback comes rumbling through as tallmen 002 kicks in. multi joins as a co-producer for d220 ghosts of guitar and synth lines weave in and out as it picks up momentum, the kick drum planted firmly in the chest plate and swirling high-hats complete this burner of a track. floating ground returns to acid but not as one would expect. a simple melody turns into a strange animal, flying at once into outer-space then landing squarely on the 1, this is not your average acid tune.

tallmens music is for long, sleepless nights in which the musics religious adherence to 4 on the floor demands dedicated raving. this unification of the old and the new, the rough and the refined is what brings the overwhelming sense of direction and energy in tallmens productions. in three words.. just.raw.beats.

despite making a impression with rough-hewn techno records on taanstafl and his own tallmen imprint, brian mitchell aka tallmen.785 is a relative newcomer to the genre. arriving in berlin to continue studying jazz guitar – a craft he’d been learning in new york from legendary jazz musicians ornette coleman and lawrence d. ‘butch’ morris – it was a long night in berghain that steered him toward electronic music

following on the heels of last year s -circuit ep-, which got support from the likes of scuba, matthew dear and 2000 and one, andre crom starts into 2017 with -short circuit-, another offering of stripped back and highly functional dj-tools.